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1 - Black and British Migration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

By
David Olusoga
Edited by
Johannes Knolle  and
James Poskett
With contributions by
David Olusoga ,
Chandran Kukathas ,
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll ,
Filippo Grandi ,
Eva Harris ,
Kavita Puri ,
Venki Ramakrishnan  and
Iain Couzin
Johannes Knolle
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
James Poskett
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Chandran Kukathas
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Filippo Grandi
Affiliation:
United Nations Refugee Agency
Eva Harris
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Kavita Puri
Affiliation:
BBC
Venki Ramakrishnan
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Iain Couzin
Affiliation:
Universität Konstanz, Germany
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Summary

I’d like to begin by asking you to think back to the 2012 Olympic Games. This was an event that I’ve come increasingly to see as the high-water mark of a phase in Britain’s attitudes towards migration, integration, race, and identity. It was a vast, very expensive, very lavish – wonderful in my view – pageant directed by Danny Boyle. It was a celebration of British culture and British creativity. Like all Olympic ceremonies, it was designed to try to say something about the nation to whom the Olympic torch had just been passed.

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Migration , pp. 5 - 17
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Collingham, L. (2017). The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World. London: Basic Books.Google Scholar
Eckardt, H. (2014). Objects and Identities: Roman Britain and the North-Western Provinces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fryer, P. (1984). Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain. London: Pluto Press.Google Scholar
Gerzina, G. (1995). Black London: Life before Emancipation. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.Google Scholar
Hall, S. (2017). Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands. London: Allen Lane.Google Scholar
Olusoga, D. (2014). The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire. London: Head of Zeus.Google Scholar
Olusoga, D. (2016). Black and British: A Forgotten History. London: Macmillan.Google Scholar
Rappaport, E. (2017). A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Shyllon, F. (1977). Black People in Britain, 1555–1833. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar

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